Search seems slow with apache solr

[Steve Dondley]

On 2021-04-05 07:49 AM, Steve Dondley wrote:
> OK, I got solr working on a new virtual machine with a healthier 4 GB
> of ram. Initially, I experienced the same slowness as before as on the
> 1 GB machine. I went back and reviewed the documentation at
> https://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS/Solr and realized that I missed a
> critical step configuring solr with the proper xml config files.
> 
> After doing this, the search time is well below one second now.

I just want to document for others that might stumble on this that I 
switched dovecot to use the local 1 GB machine solr installation and the 
search was just as quick as using solr on the 4 GB machine. Note that 
the 1 GB machine is very lightly loaded, however.


> 
> On 2021-04-05 06:12 AM, Steve Dondley wrote:
>>> Does you server have enough ram?
>> 
>> I think this may be the issue. I only have 1 GB of ram on the machine
>> and I was just reading a blog post recommending at least 4 GB. I think
>> what I'll do is set up a separate instance for solr and use that
>> instead of running it on the same machine as dovecot.
>> 
>> Thanks for your feedback.